"The street was short and narrow.
Lying like the garbage across the street and in its open gutters were
bodies of the dead," writes Bourke-White's biographer Vicki Goldberg of
this scene. ---- In pictures: India's partition -----Three months
before the partition of the subcontinent, in an interview with Doon
Campbell of Reuters, Jinnah firmly stated: "The new state will be a
modern democratic state with sovereignty resting in the people and the
members of the new nation having equal rights of citizenship regardless
of religion, caste or creed." He repeated this on August 11, 1947,
whilst addressing the members of his Constituent Assembly, making it
doubly clear to them that religion is not the business of the state. He
told them: "You are free, free to go to your temples, you are free to go
to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this state of
Pakistan. You may belong to any
